The 1992-93 NBA season was a tour de force for the Phoenix Sons.

They won a franchise record, 62 games, they clinched first place in the competitive western

conference, and they boasted the league's MVP, the round mound of rebound, Sir Charles

Parker.

The world was shocked, then, when the Chicago Bulls upended this dream team in the final

seconds of Game 6 of the 1993 NBA Finals.

Suns fans around the world watched the final 14 seconds of this game like it was this

a pruder film, parsing each moment, wondering what went wrong.

The Chicago Bulls, down by two, ran a play called The Blind Pig, where every player touched

the ball.

And with four seconds left, it wound up in the hands of John Paxon, a largely unheralded

marksman whose life was about to change.

The Suns looked amateurish by comparison, flummoxed as the ball changed hands.

Charles Barkley frantically chased B.J. Armstrong, Suns' point guard and future mayor of Sacramento

Kevin Johnson collapsed on the floor.

And my favorite player, Thunder Dan Marley, a two-time all-defensive player, raised his

hands helplessly under the basket 20 feet from the man with the ball as if to signal

a surrender.

So what happened?

Where did John Paxon's surge of confidence come from?

And how did Dan Marley, a defensive master, so helplessly loose focus?

It was me.

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